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Sarah Briceño turns Ecuador’s natural resources into nanomaterials
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Sarah Briceño turns Ecuador’s natural resources into nanomaterials
Copyright Karen Toro 2024
Updated Oct 2024
Location Urcuqui, Ecuador
Topics Editorial, Photography, Science
Summary

This Venezuelan expat transforms farm waste and sea algae into tools for materials science and drug delivery.


Photographs for “C&EN's Annual Trailblazers Special Issue - 2024”.
Sarah Briceño, PhD in Applied Chemistry and associate professor in Physical Sciences and Nanotechnology at Yachay Tech University.

Sarah, like millions of other Venezuelans who had to leave their country due to a crisis that has been going on for years, is a great contribution to the places that welcomed them. At the university where she currently works, she promotes the use and research on natural resources for the development of new technologies. He has managed to get his students to use what they have at hand to learn, such as the use of cabbage to measure pH.

During the height of the COVID 19 crisis, Sarah and her colleagues developed a low-cost method to prepare nanoparticles that allowed RNA extractions from samples to speed up PCR assays.

Photographs for “C&EN's Annual Trailblazers Special Issue - 2024”.

Sarah Briceño turns Ecuador’s natural resources into nanomaterials
This Venezuelan expat transforms farm waste and sea algae into tools for materials science and drug delivery
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